Tag: "moderately" at medical news

...t medications are the only effective treatment for moderately to severely depressed patients. Either form of treatment worked significantly better than a placebo, but the researchers demonstrated that cognitive therapy was more effective than medication at preventing relapses after the end of treatment. "W...

...cent in anxiety level on a personality test have a moderately increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease decades later. They also found a similar link between pessimistic personalities and Parkinson's. "This is the first study that took a group of people with documented personality characteristics but no...

...ers, four times as likely to be heavy drinkers and moderately less likely to be physically inactive, she said. They were not more likely to be obese. Similarly, when researchers compared those who had seen combat to veterans not exposed to such danger, associations for smoking, drinking and physical activity we...

...based approaches to lowering cholesterol: They had moderately high LDL levels, between 130 and 190 mg/dL. Researchers randomly divided the outpatients into two diners' groups: 61 ate the conventional diet, while 59 ate the plant-based diet. Each weekday for a month, they visited a research dining hall for a sp...

...effect of D2 "gene therapy" in mice with normal to moderately low levels of D2s, supporting the idea that receptor up-regulation could play a role in the treatment of alcoholism. Also in that study, however, so-called "knockout" mice, which initially had no D2s, drank more in response to D2 up-regulation. "This...

... weight, 528 considered overweight and 214 mildly, moderately or severely obese. "Obesity was associated with hi...tomy)," the study authors concluded. "Severely and moderately obese patients were at higher risk of failure than mildly obese patients," with risks two to three t...

...evels resist standard treatment. Most people with moderately elevated cholesterol levels respond to the time-tested drugs. "The risks of specific statins should be weighed for each patient," Jacobs said. "In general, physicians initially should prescribe the lowest dose of statin to bring a patient's cholest...

...was highly positive -- 3.43 on a scale of 4 -- and moderately positive toward intentions to donate (2.67) and willingness to discuss donation with family (3.00). Only 57 (11 percent) of the 502 students had signed a donor card or checked the appropriate spot on their New York State driver's license, r...

...two to three times per week and symptoms that were moderately or severely distressing (n=416). Eighty-one percent of these RLS sufferers (n=337) reported discussing their symptoms with a primary care physician yet only 6.2 percent indicated that they were given a diagnosis of RLS. "One of the biggest issues fa...

... of the Step 1 diet's effect on men and women with moderately elevated cholesterol. She found that those who al.... They recruited 32 older, overweight people with moderately elevated cholesterol. The participants included 14 men and 18 women, six of whom were receiving hor...

...ied was small -268 only- and most people were only moderately overweight. So, as the authors caution, people who are very overweight or have weight-related illnesses should not be deterred from losing weight. What is needed is more research; as the authors say "the long-term effects of weight loss are complex, ...

...verweight women between the ages of 45 and 64 with moderately advanced OA in one knee. The subjects were randomly assigned to receive either 100 milligrams of doxycycline or a placebo twice a day for 30 months. At baseline, the 2 treatment groups were roughly equal with respect to all demographic variables, bod...

...an half (58.5 percent) indicated that this concern moderately to greatly increased their number of recommendatio... biopsies, and 72.4 percent reported their concern moderately or greatly increased their number of recommendations for diagnostic mammography or ultrasound. The ...

...d 31 healthy men and women, ages 25 to 64, who had moderately elevated LDL cholesterol. The women's LDL cholesterol was in the 140 to 188 range and the men's was between 129 and 177. The participants each ate three different diets: an olive oil-based diet, a NuSun sunflower oil-based diet or an average Americ...

...ats extracted from olive oil and rapeseed oil, and moderately restricted their dietary fat. All patients had a normal brain MRI and showed no neurological signs and symptoms of X-ALD prior to the study. At the completion of the study, nearly three-fourths (74 percent) of the 89 patients showed no signs of dis...

...of smoking and tobacco, and whether people who are moderately overweight are more likely to die prematurely or d...lf of the public (51%) thought that someone who is moderately overweight would be more likely than someone who is the recommended weight to die prematurely. Howev...

... Many clinical trials have shown that a drug that moderately increases BMD (e.g. by 3 to 4%) can reduce fracture risk by as much as half. The cost of measuring BMD by a DXA scan is relatively small, but the cost of treatment - if all individuals with low BMD are treated - is significant at the population lev...

...96 percent) of the residents indicated that it was moderately or very important to address cultural issues when providing care. The number of respondents who indicated that they believed they were not prepared to care for diverse cultures in a general sense was only 8 percent. However, a larger percentage of re...

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